"What's the deal? WHY do we have to blab about this stuff publically and NAME NAMES? This is the first story I've actually had time to read tonite, but I've been hearing about it all day in news snippets. Is there someything I'm missing other than this was a big blunder?"
Could it be that somebody is trying to set President Bush up with leaking "intel" to see what his response would be?
The nation is alerted that something may be up, and the first responder for the JFKerry team, Howie Dean say it is ancient news, and done for political gain.
Then it becomes a game of political hand ball to see who will say what next.
Guess what somebody has leaked a "secret" agent's name, wonder who does stuff like this....
I smell a rat operation....
I do, too. Sounds a lot like the MO behind Plame-gate.